Ann E. Austin

Ann E. Austin is associate dean for research and professor
of
Higher, Adult and Lifelong Education at Michigan
State University, where she has twice been selected to hold
the
Mildred B. Erickson
Distinguished Chair. Dr. Austin’s research concerns faculty
careers and
professional development, organizational change in higher
education, teaching
and learning in higher education, doctoral education, reform
in
STEM education,
the academic workplace, equity and inclusion in academe
and
higher education in
the international context. She is a Fellow of the American
Educational Research
Association (AERA) and the past-president of the
Association for
the Study of
Higher Education (ASHE), and she was a Fulbright Fellow in
South
Africa (1998).
She is a founding co-PI/Leader of the Center for the
Integration
of Research,
Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL), funded by the National
Science
Foundation, and
was the principal investigator of an NSF-funded ADVANCE
PAID
grant to study
organizational change strategies that support the success of
women scholars in
STEM fields. Her work is widely published, including Faculty
Development in the
Age of Evidence: Current Practices, Future Imperatives
(2016);
Rethinking Faculty
Work: Higher Education's Strategic Imperative (2007) and
Educating Integrated
Professionals: Theory and Practice on Preparation for the
Professoriate (2008), as
well as other books, articles, chapters and monographs
concerning higher
education issues in the United States and in international
contexts. In 2011, she
wrote a commissioned paper for the Board on Science
Education
of the National
Research Council entitled “Promoting Evidence-Based
Change in
Undergraduate
Science Education.” She has worked with colleagues at the
national and
institutional levels on higher education issues in a number of
countries, including
Australia, China, Egypt, Finland, Malaysia, Oman, Thailand,
the
Philippines, South
Africa, the United Arab Emirates and Vietnam.